[svnbook commit] r1705 - trunk/src/en/book
mthelen
svnbook-dev at red-bean.com
Mon Sep 26 15:22:22 CDT 2005
Author: mthelen
Date: Mon Sep 26 15:22:21 2005
New Revision: 1705
Modified:
trunk/src/en/book/ch02.xml
Log:
* src/en/book/ch02.xml
(svn.basic.in-action.mixedrevs.update-commit): Minor clarification of the
interaction between svn update and svn commit.
Patch by: Eric Hanchrow <offby1 at blarg.net>
(Tweaked by mthelen.)
Modified: trunk/src/en/book/ch02.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/src/en/book/ch02.xml (original)
+++ trunk/src/en/book/ch02.xml Mon Sep 26 15:22:21 2005
@@ -723,9 +723,11 @@
users would expect the working copy to be entirely at
revision 15, but that's not the case! Any number of changes
might have happened in the repository between revisions 10
- and 15. It would be a lie to claim that we had a working
- copy of revision 15, the client simply doesn't know. If, on
- the other hand, <command>svn commit</command> were to
+ and 15. The client knows nothing of those changes in the
+ repository, since you haven't yet run <command>svn
+ update</command>, and <command>svn commit</command> doesn't
+ pull down new changes. If, on the other hand,
+ <command>svn commit</command> <emphasis>were</emphasis> to
automatically download the newest changes, then it would be
possible to set the entire working copy to revision
15—but then we'd be breaking the fundamental rule
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